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Celebrating the Web of Life: An Animal Blessing Service

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship It is our annual tradition, honoring the furry, tailed, finned, scaled, feathered creatures with whom we share this marvelous planet. We will gather in person outdoors – weather and covid permitting – and friendly and vaccinated companion animals are welcome. There will be treats and cool water available. We will also … Continue reading Celebrating the Web of Life: An Animal Blessing Service

The Perils of Polarization

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship American political discourse has become intensely polarized. On even apparently neutral issues, there is a Republican side and a Democratic side. As Unitarian-Universalists we value the free and responsible search for truth, but our politics seems to embody the exact opposite. How did this happen? How did we get this way? … Continue reading The Perils of Polarization

General Assembly 2021 – Ware Lecture

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Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship The UUA President invites a distinguished guest each year to address the General Assembly as the Ware Lecturer. Join us this Sunday to hear this year’s Ware Lecturers, Stacey Abrams and Desmond Meade. Stacey Abrams is the New York Times bestselling author of Our Time Is Now and Lead from the … Continue reading General Assembly 2021 – Ware Lecture

Power of Myth

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Joseph Campbell taught us that myths are deeply spiritual metaphorical poetry. Myths are not lies, nor are they literal truths, but they are metaphorical truths. For millennia, myths have helped to guide countless individuals across many different cultures and spiritual traditions on their most difficult personal journeys, as each navigates the … Continue reading Power of Myth

Awakening

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship What do we remember as moments of awakening for us? Despite cynicism in some quarters at the idea of being “woke,” the act of awakening is as natural to humans — and as essential — as the breath. It is part of our lives as spiritual humans, as beings who practice both … Continue reading Awakening

Brave

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Researcher Brene Brown talks about how being truly brave is also being vulnerable. What are some of the bravest conversations we’ve had? Let us walk the edge of courage together.

Is Religious Liberty Under Attack in this Country Today?

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law . . . respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”  Yet many Americans believe that religious liberty is under attack as never before.  Why do so many believe this to be the case?  Are they right?  Should … Continue reading Is Religious Liberty Under Attack in this Country Today?

Taking Our Time

Over the past year our relationship with time changed. We found ourselves with more of it. Not driving to and from, not going out, not travelling – we were suddenly faced with a glut of this valuable commodity. For many of us, this precipitated thought about our own time and a little more work than … Continue reading Taking Our Time

White Supremacy Culture

Link for Sunday Worship:   https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship On this 245th anniversary of our nation’s independence, we’ll take a look at the Declaration of Independence’s famous assertion – that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” and see where … Continue reading White Supremacy Culture